The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08
The Press for $3.50 q Year,
advGsace.
THE business portion of Euainence,
KY, was destroyed by fire last week.

THE business portion of Eminence,
KY, was destroyed by fire last week.
THE Prohibition vote in Ohio in 1885
was 2s.0Sl In 1873. 2S ,9o2 and in 1887,
20, 700. Not an enormous gain.
AN Eastern paper advocates the
printing of ballots by the State in Or
der to prevent raising great campaign
funds.
AS THE result of injuries sustained
in the Haymarket Chicago riot. ne
cessitating two amputations of shat
tered leg, policeman Hansen is report
ed insane.
HON. J. E. MoNNoT, OF Canton, re-
Gently elected TO the Legislature, is
but "a years old, probably the young
est member ever elected.
CINCINNATI wants both National
Conventions next year, Ii there Is
anything she doesn't want the TACT
should be made known at once.
NEXT year the Republicans OF Ohio
will have no schance to charge the
bankruptcy of the State upon Gov
ernor Hoadly's administration, at all
events.
THE Strobridge Lithographing Co.'S
factory, said to be the largest estsb-
lishment of the kind in the world,
was burned in Cincinnati on the lst
inst. Loss, syst, 200; Insurance., $l47.
S75.
A 1000 BAIL BOND allowed Jake
Sharp 10 exchange his quarters at the
Tombs for the coveted quiet and rest
of his home. Vive la Doodle.
CHARLES BATTEL THOMPSON, the
oldest editor in the state of New York
died last Friday, aged rs years. He
had edited the LeRoy Gazette for Al
years, and was an intimate friend OF
Horace Greeley and Thurlow Weed.
MRS. MARY NEWTON, widow of the
late Judge EDsn Newton, died ut the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Mears, in
Madison, Wis, Nov. 18th, aged 81
years. Her remains were brought to
Garfield, where they were inferred III
the village cemetery.
THE Life Saving Service during the
sixteen years Of it's existence has saved
"a, 1888 lives out of total of 30. .427 lives
imperiled. The record is an extraor-
dinary proof of the value and eficisn'
cy of the Service.
THE first United States Congress
met In New York City on March 4th,
1879. In 1870 the meetings were trans.
ferred to Philadelphia, and in 1900 to
Washington. March 4th, 1889, will
wind up the first century of American
congressional legislation.
THE constitutional Presidential term
in France is seven years. he is not
elected by the people, but is chosen by
the National Assembly, The salary
is $3.50. 900 per aAnum. with like sum
for contingent expenses. NJ. Grevy,
recently resigned, was chosen Presi'
dent in 1873, and reelected in 1886.
In switching cars at Leavittsburg,
Thanksgiving day, the platform was
torn up about tine transfer house. John
McGarry found basket hiddea under
the platform, exposed by the break in
the platform. filled with solid silver
ware. Subsequent investigation as to
its ownership proved it to have been
stolen from Mrs. }. Brninerd, of War
rem,
THE firm of Brown, Wood q King
man, dry goods commission merchants
of New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
and Chicago, doing business of $l2,-
OOO, 900 to $i4 600, 900 u year, have gone
into liquidation. The firm is said to
be solvent, and will have large sur
plus when the business is wound up.